The document discusses how different social groups are represented in a media product. It represents teenagers as disrespectful and reckless through showing them drinking and smoking in a park. It portrays the social group as working class through having them socialize in affordable ways like in parks at night. The film's cast is mainly white, with the sole black character as the strong survivor, emphasizing the stereotypical strength of black people. Gender stereotypes are both reinforced and challenged through portrayals of masculine and feminine personalities among male and female characters. Heterosexual relationships are shown through intimate moments between couples.

1. Evaluation Question Two
By Amber Bush
How does your media
product represent particular
social groups?
Adolescence
The teenagers in our film are shown to be drinking alcohol
and smoking cigarettes in a children’s park, representing
them as disrespectful and reckless. It is a stereotype of
teens to always be on their phone, According to
gottabemobile.com, 75% of teens have phones. IPhone’s
are popular with adolescence, and is why we used this in
our film. Also we have shown them as working class, as
they can afford to have these phones. Our location shows
the stage of life teenagers are going through, as they are in
an area for children, but they are seen doing adult things by
drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
Age
Working Class
The social group in our film is working class, we have sown this by
them walking the streets late at night, drinking alcohol and smoking
cigarettes, as this is how they have fun. We have represented them as
rebels as they are drinking alcohol underage, which is against the law.
Also they have chosen to socialise in a park, which is something that
most teenagers do and which is free of charge, instead of going to
the cinema. We dressed our characters in casual clothes, jeans and
hoddies, which also represented them as being ‘hoddies’ which is a
stereotypical name for badly behaved teenagers. Our representation
of working class teenagers conforms to their stereotypes.
Class
Black and White
The cast in our film where mainly white and the
only black member of our film was the surviving
character. We did this to emphasize the strength
associated with the black race of people as they are
stereotypically seen as the leader and brave. In
many shots she is seen at the front of all the
characters leading the way. This does not follow
the convention of black people dying first in films,
as we did not realize this until after, but did not feel
the need to change it as we wanted to keep this
stereotype to see the comparison between the white
characters in our film, they were mainly concerned
with things such as relationships, how they are seen
by others and are frightened.
Race
Masculinity and Femininity
In our social group, we did not go
with the stereotypes of females being
feminine and males being masculine
and we decided to represent the
different personalities with in social
groups of the youth of today. The
female character of Fluer is shown as
shy and not worried about her looks
compared to Sadie who is worried
about her looks and is obsessed with
her boyfriend. Riley, is shown as
masculine as she is the survivor and
Scarlett the doll is shown as feminine
but is very masculine as she is
dominate and threating. The male
characters in our film are shown as
weaker than the females going against
the stereotype of males being
stronger than women by making a
female survivor. We have kept the
element of masculinity is dominant
over femininity as when Jack pushes
Fleur around she is accepts being
controlled by masculine figures.
Gender
In our film the sexuality shown
is heterosexual, between Dave
and Sadie this is seen when
they are cuddling up to each
other and holding hands which
expresses their relationship.
Also we encoded the
relationship between Jack and
Fleur to be friendly and them
to be flirting with each other.
Sexuality